Everything is nothing with a twist
– Kurt Vonnegut
This is a surprisingly accurate pointer, especially when it’s specified a bit.
To me, everything is nothing with a twist.
In one sense, I am this human self in the world. It’s what my passport tells me and how others see me, and I need to be able to play that particular role in order to function in the world.
And when I look in my first-person experience, I find I am more fundamentally something else. I am capacity for the world as it appears to me. I am what the world, to me, happens within and as. I am what any content of experience happens within and as.
Said another way, I find myself as consciousness. I am the consciousness the world, to me, happens within and as. I am the consciousness this human self and anything else happens within and as.
All that is just to say that I am nothingness that takes the form of any and all experiences.
To me, everything is nothing with a twist.
It’s not a metaphor. It’s not poetry. It’s not even science. It’s direct noticing.
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